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Over 50 villages near Kobani in Kurds’ hands

Arab World Materials 5 February 2015 07:05 (UTC +04:00)
Kurdish fighters who battle ISIL terrorists around the Syrian key town of Kobani have so far liberated over 50 nearby villages.
Over 50 villages near Kobani in Kurds’ hands

Kurdish fighters who battle ISIL terrorists around the Syrian key town of Kobani have so far liberated over 50 nearby villages, Press TV reported.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the Peshmerga forces have been faced with little resistance from the Takfiri militants, recently pushed out of the strategic town across from the Turkish border.

The observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman called the Kurds' advance during the past week "speedy" with ISIL militants withdrawing "as soon as" the Peshmerga forces enter a village.

The forces, also called the People's Protection Units (YPG), recaptured Kobani on January 26 after nearly five months of fighting and since then battles to capture some 350 nearby villages have begun.

Since they reclaimed the town, 10 ISIL terrorists have been killed in battles around Kobani, according to the UK-based observatory.

The ISIL terrorists currently control swathes of territory across Iraq and neighboring Syria where they have been committing heinous crimes.

Since 2011, Syria has been gripped by a deadly conflict that has so far left more than 200,000 people dead.

In 2014, over 76,000 people, including thousands of children, lost their lives in Syria, according to new figures.

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